Netizens who have watched the film "Rescue Mr. Wu" know that this is a work with a very good reputation, the score on Douban is as high as 7.8 points, the main reason is 2 points, one is the shooting level of the crew and the actor's acting skills, the second is that the theme comes from real events, so that the film has a strong sense of substitution, then, who are the archetypal characters of the protagonist and the opponent in reality in the movie?
Before that, let's take a look at the plot of the movie: After Mr. Hong Kong Xingwu came out of a bar on the street in the early morning, he was hijacked by a gang posing as a policeman, and at the same time, they also took a man named Xiao Dou hostage. During the more than 20 hours of abduction, they relied on each other and fought with the kidnappers, and on the other side, the police immediately began to investigate after receiving the alarm, and finally the hostages were rescued.
The prototype of Mr. Wu in the movie is the famous actor Wu Ruofu in China, and the prototype of the number one criminal Zhang Hua is a man named Wang Lihua. The case attracted much media attention that year because the victims involved were public figures.
Seventeen years after the kidnapping, during the Spring Festival, Wu Ruofu and his friends were talking in a bar in Beijing, and they didn't walk out of the bar until after 2 a.m., but he didn't know that danger was approaching him: Wang Lihua, who was known as the first kidnapper in Beijing, was already eyeing. They hid early in a luxury car to wait for the opportunity, and the owner of the car was Wu Ruofu. After seeing the target appear, they went forward and lied that it was a policeman, and because the car was suspected of a traffic accident, the owner needed to cooperate with the investigation. Friends saw Wu Ruofu and a group of people in a stalemate, and were walking to their side to break the siege, Wang Lihua and others saw that the situation was not good, immediately pulled out a pistol and forcibly kidnapped Wu Ruofu. Subsequently put forward a demand for a ransom of 2 million, otherwise it would tear up the ticket, the police immediately organized police forces to carry out rescue after receiving the report, and in less than a day, successfully captured Wang Lihua, who was repairing the car.
The police learned of Wu Ruofu's detention through interrogation, and they quickly found the kidnapper's hiding place after interrogation, and successfully rescued Wu Ruofu and another hostage.
The police also learned that Wang Lihua, who is only 27 years old, has been a habitual criminal since childhood, he likes to do some things like to steal chickens and dogs as a child, and when he grows up, he began to mix with society, and he once did crimes such as killing his mother, kidnapping and illegally carrying guns, and the number of times he entered and left prison was like a common meal, he had long been pulled into the blacklist by the police, but despite this, he was still obsessed, and the court punished him for several crimes and was eventually sentenced to death.
This case has attracted much attention after the occurrence, and a lot of real video materials have been retained for this purpose, which also provides a good foundation for the filming of the movie "Rescue Mr. Wu". It is reported that during the filming, the director asked all the actors to watch the video many times, and during the filming, they would often play back the data reference.
It is the director's "heavy calculation" that makes the reduction rate of the film exceed 70%, from the special police to capture the kidnappers to save the hostages, the film is almost the same as the actual events, so that after the release of the film, many netizens said that this is simply a documentary restoration.
After this incident, Wu Ruofu, as a star, cherished everything around him more, and once faded out of the silver screen and focused on the family. After many years, the director Ding Sheng found him and showed his intentions, at first he was a little hesitant, but seeing that he and Liu Ye specially went to the police force for three months in order to make this movie, he immediately agreed, and also played the criminal police captain "Cao Gang" in the play. Later, in an interview, he mentioned that a decade had passed since the abduction and that many things had been put aside.
From "victim" to "rescuer", the crew seems to use "Mr. Wu" to save "Mr. Wu" very meaningfully, and the past and present overlap together, which can not only reflect that Wu Ruofu has been redeemed, but also express his gratitude in this way. Of course, the film can be so gripping, inseparable from the profound skills of the director and actors.